View the datastores and networks available for creating Hadoop clusters

]]>https://labs.vmware.com/flings/android-vsphere-big-data-extensions-client/feed0Horizon View Persona Management Share Validation Toolhttps://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-view-persona-management-share-validation-tool
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-view-persona-management-share-validation-tool#commentsMon, 16 Mar 2015 16:17:44 +0000http://labs.vmware.com/?p=7315The Horizon View Persona Management Share Validation Tool is a command-line utility that analyzes user profiles and CIFS shares used by Persona Management to ensure minimum security requirements are met. Persona depends on two CIFS shares to function: the central profile store and the redirected folder share. If the permissions on these CIFS shares fail to meet minimum requirements, then Persona Management will not function correctly. Therefore, this tool has been created to analyze the settings and permissions on the specified CIFS share or profile, identify any incorrect settings or permissions, and suggest steps to correct any issues found.
]]>https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-view-persona-management-share-validation-tool/feed1Horizon Toolbox (was View Auditing Portal)https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-toolbox
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-toolbox#commentsThu, 12 Mar 2015 16:16:16 +0000http://labs.vmware.com/?p=6964The Horizon Toolbox is a new web portal that serves as an extension to Horizon View Administrator. It has the following functions:

Usage: Shows accumulated use time of users for last 2 days, last week and last month. Shows all connections (user name, pool/farm name, machine name, connection time, disconnection time) for the past 2 days, last week, and last month.

Snapshots: Shows parent virtual machines of linked clone desktop pools and descendant snapshots in a tree view. The snapshots not in use by linked clone pools are marked in grey, so that the View administrator can remove the snapshots not in use.

Clients: Shows statistics for operation systems and versions of View clients in different types of view styles.

Remote Assistance

Remote Assistance provides the capability for the administrator or IT helpdesk to remotely view and/or control an end-user’s desktop in the Horizon View environment. (This is also called session shadowing.)

Device Access Policy

Device Access Policy provides a whitelist to control devices that can access Horizon View.

]]>https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-toolbox/feed108VCS to VCVA Converterhttps://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcs-to-vcva-converter
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcs-to-vcva-converter#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 20:07:49 +0000http://labs.vmware.com/?p=7294The VCS to VCVA Converter Appliance is the winning idea from the 2013 Fling Contest. It allows customers to migrate from Windows vCenter Server with an External Microsoft SQL Server Database to the vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded vPostgres database. The Fling migrates the vCenter database, roles, permissions, privileges, certificates and inventory service. The target appliance will run at the same IP address as the source vCenter.

Configurable and fully automated, so it can be used as a scheduled task

Delete old logs, according to setting, to maintain log size

]]>https://labs.vmware.com/flings/batchdct/feed1VM Resource and Availability Servicehttps://labs.vmware.com/flings/vm-resource-and-availability-service
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vm-resource-and-availability-service#commentsMon, 02 Feb 2015 17:09:33 +0000http://labs.vmware.com/?p=7263This Fling enables you to perform a what-if analysis for host failures on your infrastructure. You can simulate failure of one or more hosts from a cluster (in vSphere) and identify how many:

VMs would be safely restarted on different hosts

VMs would fail to be restarted on different hosts

VMs would experience performance degradation after restarted on a different host

With this information, you can better plan the placement and configuration of your infrastructure to reduce downtime of your VMs/Services in case of host failures.

Please see the Instructions tab to get started.

]]>https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vm-resource-and-availability-service/feed48vMaxGuidehttps://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmaxguide
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmaxguide#commentsTue, 20 Jan 2015 17:22:19 +0000http://labs.vmware.com/?p=7246vMaxGuide is an Android application which provides the maximum supported configurations of the following vSphere versions:

vSphere 5.5

vSphere 5.1

vSphere 5.0

vMaxGuide also provides a comparative view of components across the three versions of vSphere along with the comparison of virtual Hardware versions of Virtual Machines.

Users can swipe between the different platforms displayed and select the component of interest. The app also provides a message to the user on certain components, marked by [*], which requires certain condition to reach the maximum supported configuration.

Note: The functionality of this Fling has now been integrated into Horizon View 6.1. However, you can still download this Fling if you are using earlier versions of Horizon View.

The ViewDbChk tool allows administrators to scan for, and fix provisioning errors that can not be addressed using View Administrator. Provisioning errors occur when there are inconsistencies between the LDAP, vCenter and View Composer databases. These can be caused by: direct editing of the vCenter inventory, restoring a backup, or a long term network problem.

This tool allows VMware View administrators to scan for machines which can not be provisioned and remove all database entries for them. The View Connection Server will then be able to re-provision the machine without any errors.

]]>https://labs.vmware.com/flings/viewdbchk/feed19Container Orchestration on vSphere with Big Data Extensionshttps://labs.vmware.com/flings/big-data-extensions-for-vsphere-standard-edition
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/big-data-extensions-for-vsphere-standard-edition#commentsThu, 04 Dec 2014 17:19:41 +0000http://labs.vmware.com/?p=6045Big Data Extensions Fling is a fully configured and ready to run virtual appliance that provisions and manages Google Kubernetes clusters and Mesos clusters with Docker on vSphere. It allows:

Automated provisioning of the VMs and software for Mesos, and Kubernetes clusters